Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly... different ways--and all are right! At least all will do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

As your baby progresses from one milestone to the next, remember that he doesn't really leave any of them behind. In order to grow... and develop to his full potential he must continually build on and strengthen all of the steps that have gone before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Our day you will find that you have stopped regarding your baby as a totally unpredictable and therefore rather alarming novelty, ...and have begun instead to think of him as a person with tastes, preferences and characteristics of his own. When that happens you will know that he has moved on from being a "newborn" and has got himself settled into life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In order to become spoiled ... a child has to be able to want things as well as need them. He has to be able to see himself as a b...eing who is separate from everyone else.... A baby is none of these things. He feels a need and he expresses it. He is not intellectually capable of working out involved plans and ideas like "Can I make her give me...?" "If I make enough fuss he will...?" "They let me do ... yesterday and I want to do it again today so I'll...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Your toddler is no longer a baby feeling himself as part of you, using you as his controller, facilitator, his mirror for himself ...and the world. But he is not yet a child either; ready to see you as a person in your own right and to take responsibility for himself and his own actions in relation to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A baby nurse is one that changes diapers and loves 'em dearly. Get up at all hours of the night to give 'em the bottle and change ...their pants. If the baby coughs or cries, you have to find out the need. I had my own room usually, but I slept in the same room with the baby. I would take full charge. It was twenty-four hours. I used to have one day a week off and I'd go home and see my own two little ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »